Otto Fox Wilder

Name This Photo. Win a Silly Prize.

April 21, 2011 /

Growing up, my parents used to always receive this farming magazine in the mail called Farm & Ranch Living.

My brothers and I loved the pictures of other farms and of kids who kind of looked like us –

wearing overalls and plowing fields and lifting hay bales and feeding calves.

And there was this one well-known photograph that seemed to always be featured on their back cover.

Man, that magazine exploited this photo to the extreme.

There were mugs, hats, t-shirts, calendars, shellacked wood pieces, clocks, bed sheets and car wraps featuring these two little farmers.

(Alright – I never saw a bed sheet.  Or a car wrap.  But I bet if they thought someone would have purchased it . . . )

And there was a caption featured below the two little fellows.

“Been farmin’ long?”

Farmers and farmers’ wives and farmers’ children could not get enough of those cute little overall wearing boys.

And the other day, when Emma and her boys were visiting for Berg’s birthday celebration,

Emma snapped a photo of Otto Fox Wilder and his pal Raegan.

(By the way – if you need a Charlotte-based photographer or designer, um, you couldn’t find a better one than Emma at Odd Dog Design & Photography.)

As soon as Kevin and I saw the photo,

we thought of those two little farmers.

(I was surprised the pair of iconic small fellows still had a home in the recesses of my memory, actually.)

Anyway.

This adorable shot by Emma needs an equally adorable cut line –

dontcha’ think?

So . . .

give me your best tag line.

And I’ll pick which one I think is the funniest/cutest/ sweetest/best.

(I’ll probably use a discerning team of Keigley family members to help me make the final decision.)

And it wouldn’t be a contest without a prize.

I figure the prize should fit the contest.

Sort of.

So the winner will receive a year’s subscription to Farm & Ranch Living magazine.

And then every other month (because that’s how they publish) you will head to the mailbox and receive your random dose of farm living and think about those little farmers and Otto and Raegan.

And I bet you’ll smile.

Let’s get started!

Contest ends in one week – Thursday, April 28 at ten p.m.

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